Decided to download Crome onto my laptop, copied it onto a memory stick and then moved that across onto the old PC - all went well

Upon opening it up on the old PC I got this error message:

Unable to access the network

Google Crome is having trouble accessing the network.
This may be because your firewall or antivirus software wrongly thinks Google Crome is an intruder on your computor and is blocking it from connecting to the internet.

Decided to download Crome onto my laptop, copied it onto a memory stick and then moved that across onto the old PC - all went well

Upon opening it up on the old PC I got this error message:

Unable to access the network

Google Crome is having trouble accessing the network.
This may be because your firewall or antivirus software wrongly thinks Google Crome is an intruder on your computor and is blocking it from connecting to the internet.

Yes, your network connection seems to be "borked". See my above post for a possibility of deleting the network adapter and reinstalling it to see if that helps.

The TCP/IP that you needed to uninstall and reinstall was version 4, not TCP/IP 6 (which probably isn't even being used on XP right now). I just tried it on the XP PC at work and you're right, you cannot uninstall TCP/IP (which is version 4). You may need to go to the Control Panel and then to Device Manager (System) and delete your Network adapter. Reboot and let the network adapter be reinstalled (which would then reinstall the TCP/IP stack).

If it says the host could not be found, but you can still ping an IP address like "8.8.8.8" -then the issue is related to DNS lookup. However, I don't think that's the case. You tried to load a Google page using Google's IP and it failed.

I think there's some kind of security software on the computer that has disabled the Internet connection entirely or is malfunctioning. I've talked to many people with Trend Micro security software that found it had spontaneously enabled an option to block the Internet. Right-clicked the tray icon to enable.

The software is probably completely different now.

Since it's XP, try this:
- search for "winsock xp fix"
- make sure you download "winsockxpfix.exe" and not some other crap they trick you to download
- copy it to the old computer
- run it and let it do its thing
- reboot

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So what does this mean????? I'm thinking it means that my old PC has just communicated with Yahoo via an internet link - but somehow I still cant get on the internet LOL

Thanks for all your help

Possibly infected by DNSChanger malware?

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So what does this mean????? I'm thinking it means that my old PC has just communicated with Yahoo via an internet link - but somehow I still cant get on the internet LOL

Thanks for all your help

That's sort of what it did. The DNS lookup worked and the ping worked but I don't think that ping works on the same port as HTTP. However, seems that HTTP (possibly port 80) is being blocked or as suggested above, you need to run the Winsock Fix.

Also, have you run Malwarebytes (or some other good virus/malware detector) to see if the system has been hijacked?

Also, you might check in Control Panel and see if the firewall is turned off. If it's on, turn it off and see if it runs from there?

Did you check for a Proxy connection in Internet Explorer (see above posts for details)?

(in case it strips the h t t p s.). Type in the link including the https: and see if it goes.

By the way, when you installed Chrome, do you happen to know if it pulled its' settings from Internet Explorer (i.e. did it ask you if you wanted to import setting from IE)? I'm just making sure that it didn't pull some Proxy setting from IE (I don't know if it does that or not but just to eliminate it).

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ATX is for poor people. And 'gamers.' - phucheneh
haswell is bulldozer... - aigomorla
"DON'T BUY INTEL, they will send secret signals down the internet, which
will considerably slow down your computer". - SOFTengCOMPelec

That may fix it but only because Windows would be installing something new, possibly fixing whatever is broken. The fact that he can ping www.yahoo.com and it resolves and pings means the NIC is fine. The problem is either Windows is broken or the PC has a virus/trojan/spyware takeover.